I spent the weekend of November 4, 2011 sitting in a big room with data nerds. Two very cool dudes named Jake and Drew brought their amazing project, Data Without Borders, to San Francisco for 3 days of analysis to be donated to some non-profits that need some help “munging” their data. This “datadive” involved the Grameen Foundation, Benetech, and Mobilizing Health (a new project out of Berkeley).
I worked with the Grameen Foundation, known for microfinance in the developing world, in analyzing the performance of their field supervisors (known as CKW’s — community knowledge workers) supporting the farmers taking the micro credit.
This blue – yellow heatmap shows the normalized relative ranking of CKWs in each of Grameen’s African districts based on the number of times each CKW visited a farmer in a given month, over a 12 month period.
I’m showing small versions only to respect privacy of Grameen’s data.
